"Brother Shen, as long as you can spare his life, I am willing to tell you all the secrets of the Body Refining Altar that I know." After Ma Xiuxiu said this, she actually knelt down on the ground.
"Ma Xiuxiu, you are indeed involved with the Body Refining Altar." Shen Luo said coldly after hearing this.
"Brother Shen, as long as you show mercy today, anything is fine, even if you have to exchange my life for it." Ma Xiuxiu lowered her head and spoke again.
“No…” Upon hearing this, the Dragon King of Jinghe River was immediately shocked and furious.
"What is your relationship with the Dragon King of Jinghe River? Why would you go to such lengths?" Shen Luo's expression changed, and he couldn't help but ask.
"Brother Shen, he is my biological father. How can I not save him?" Ma Xiuxiu asked loudly.
As she spoke, she suddenly raised her head, her face already covered with tears.
Although Shen Luo had guessed it a long time ago, he was still a little shocked to hear Ma Xiuxiu admit it herself. He never thought that Ma Xiuxiu would be the daughter of the Jinghe Dragon King.
"It sounds unbelievable, right? If those people hadn't done evil, I would probably have used the respectable surname 'Ao', right? I would probably have been a little dragon girl who grew up in the Dragon Palace and was ignorant of the world, right?" Ma Xiuxiu murmured.
Shen Luo heard some inexplicable meaning from it, and asked: "Those who do evil, what do you mean by this?"
"People only know that my father, in a fit of rage, disobeyed the Jade Emperor's order and arbitrarily changed the time and amount of rain. He was then thrown onto the Dragon-Slaying Platform for defying the will of Heaven. Who has ever looked for the root cause behind this?" Ma Xiuxiu asked.
Shen Luo already knew about the gambling fight between the Dragon King of Jinghe River and Yuan Shoucheng, but from what Ma Xiuxiu said, it seemed that there was another hidden story behind this matter.
"Miss Ma, please make it clear if you have anything to say." Shen Luo frowned.
Ma Xiuxiu was about to speak, but was stopped by the Dragon King of Jinghe River: "Let me speak..."
Shen Luo turned his gaze and moved his sight to the Dragon King of Jinghe River, but he did not loosen his grip on the Dragon-Slaying Sword in his hand at all.
"That was twenty years ago. Ma Wenli, the then prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture, gave birth to a daughter named Yuanran. She was both talented and beautiful, and had a good reputation in Chang'an..." The Dragon King of Jinghe River looked away, and his thoughts seemed to have returned to the past.
As he narrated the story, Shen Luo heard a story about fortune-telling and gambling that was very different from what he had known before.
In those days, Emperor Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty went out for hunting in the mountains. On his return, he stayed at the residence of Jingzhao Yin Ma Wenli, and saw the second young lady of the Ma family, who was both talented and beautiful. He was immediately impressed by her and praised her highly.
In order to win over the imperial preceptor Yuan Tiangang and the powerful Yuan family behind him, the Tang Emperor took it upon himself to arrange a marriage between the Ma and Yuan families, and arranged the marriage of the second Miss Ma to Yuan Qing, the second son of the Yuan family, who was also the most talented man in the capital at that time.
In the eyes of everyone in Chang'an City at that time, this was a perfect match and everyone praised it.
But no one knew that Miss Ma Er accidentally fell into the water while swimming in the river and was rescued by the Dragon King of the Jing River who transformed into a human form. The two fell in love at first sight.
It was just that due to the difference between humans and gods, the Dragon King of Jinghe River had never performed the three letters and six engagement ceremonies. Unexpectedly, the Emperor of Tang intervened, leading to the current embarrassing situation.